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| author | Ben Woodcroft <donttrustben@gmail.com> | 2016-01-25 08:31:14 +1000 |
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| committer | Ben Woodcroft <donttrustben@gmail.com> | 2016-01-25 18:45:33 +1000 |
| commit | 23f3cbb8de530e7219c56772334032ab7d90a480 (patch) | |
| tree | 1a95ac8a65ccfd4affa063c6089b7f962f20c4b2 | |
| parent | 880d647d0f1a0ea0aea2af84fa2e99e3286b65a1 (diff) | |
| download | guix-23f3cbb8de530e7219c56772334032ab7d90a480.tar.gz | |
gnu: Add pixz.
* gnu/packages/compression.scm (pixz): New variable.
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/compression.scm | 29 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm index fd3a9ce98e..0f27fa9410 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2015 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> ;;; Copyright © 2015 Jeff Mickey <j@codemac.net> ;;; Copyright © 2015 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> +;;; Copyright © 2016 Ben Woodcroft <donttrustben@gmail.com> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -32,8 +33,10 @@ #:use-module (guix git-download) #:use-module (guix build-system gnu) #:use-module (guix build-system perl) + #:use-module (gnu packages backup) #:use-module (gnu packages base) #:use-module (gnu packages perl) + #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config) #:use-module (gnu packages valgrind) #:use-module ((srfi srfi-1) #:select (last))) @@ -659,3 +662,29 @@ multiple processors and multiple cores when compressing data.") ;; Things under zopfli/ are under ASL2.0, but 4 files at the top-level, ;; written by Mark Adler, are under another non-copyleft license. (license license:asl2.0))) + +(define-public pixz + (package + (name "pixz") + (version "1.0.6") + (source (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append + "https://github.com/vasi/pixz/releases/download/v" version + "/pixz-" version ".tar.xz")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "1s3j7zw6j5zi3fhdxg287ndr3wf6swac7z21mqd1pyiln530gi82")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (native-inputs + `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config) + ("libarchive" ,libarchive))) + (home-page "https://github.com/vasi/pixz") + (synopsis "Parallel indexing implementation of LZMA") + (description + "The existing XZ Utils provide great compression in the .xz file format, +but they produce just one big block of compressed data. Pixz instead produces +a collection of smaller blocks which makes random access to the original data +possible and can compress in parallel. This is especially useful for large +tarballs.") + (license license:bsd-2))) |